Life Quotes

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.

Vaclav Klaus

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

Vaclav Klaus

That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.

Vaclav Klaus

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

Vaclav Klaus

What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.

Vaclav Klaus

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

Vaclav Klaus

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Vaclav Klaus

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.

Vaclav Klaus

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

Val Kilmer

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Val Kilmer

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

Val Kilmer

You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Val Kilmer

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Val Kilmer

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

Val Kilmer

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

Val Kilmer

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

Val Kilmer

When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

Val Kilmer

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

Val Kilmer

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Val Kilmer

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

Val Kilmer

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

Val Kilmer